docs: def _make_variant_locus_id(gene_id, allele_id):
          """
          A convenience method to uniformly create variant loci.
          If we want to materialize these in the monarch space,
          then we wrap with the self.make_id function.
          :param gene_id:
          :param allele_id:
          :return:
  
          """
  
          varloci = '-'.join((gene_id, allele_id))
          varloci = '_:' + re.sub(r'(ZFIN)?:', '', varloci)
  
          return varloci